Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.

Those who hate us only win if we hate them back

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.